Quotes About Conjecture

People don't know what goes on in my private life, so they have to make conjecture from something that is photographed.

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

My rule of thumb is those kind of questions are best answered afterward. Experience beats conjecture every time." She

The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result. Conjectures are of great importance since they suggest useful lines of research.

We can know what was, but not what might have been.

In order to be speculating, by definition you must have a plan.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Never having been dead, it was merely speculation.

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

The less you know about the person, the more you fill in the rosiest details.

I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am at a loss to account for the existence and arrangement of the visible universe, and, being left in the wide sea of conjecture without a clue from analogy or experience, I find the conjecture of a God easy, obvious, and irresistible.

They say, "There is nothing but our present life; we die, and we live, and nothing but Time destroys us." Of that they have no knowledge; they merely conjecture.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

There is a world of difference between inference and conjecture, and imagination must not roam at the cost of authenticity. Paul

It was in 1742 that Christian Goldbach put forward his famous conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.

which has inspired at least one novel, Apostolos Doxiadis's Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture29).

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

Intuition,' he answered with a shrug. 'It is the only tool left to the mathematician in the absence of proof.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. [IRC discussion at Scifi.com, 1 November 1996]

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

God is a conjecture; but I desire that your conjectures should be limited by what is thinkable. Can you think a god? [...] You should think through your own senses to their consequences.

God is a conjecture: but I do not wish your conjecturing to reach beyond your creating will. Could ye CREATE a God?—Then, I pray you, be silent about all Gods! But ye could well create the Superman.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.